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Lighthouse Ruby Library

This is the official Ruby client made to interface with the Lighthouse API. Requirements for downloading the library include ActiveResource and ActiveSupport. The library comes equipped with a sandbox for testing quick commands. Lighthouse is a service for collaborative projects. For small teams to a studio of 50, Lighthouse will help you keep track of your project development with ease." The Lighthouse API gives developers the tools to integrate their services to other sites and applications. Use the Lighthouse API to integrate your issue tracking tickets with Google Calendar or other applications.

The microservices architecture continues to grow in popularity as it enables the scalability and flexibility necessary to serve the modern marketplace. Saba Anees discusses some key considerations for migrating your existing monolithic architecture to a more streamlined microservices one.

The 600 million numbers that Truecaller has in its directory have been collected via crowd-sourcing. Truecaller’s users can share their contacts and in return they get access to search in the collaborative database. Thanks to this collaborative data solution, the directory is growing and being updated continuously. It also contains numbers that no other directories have, e.g. pre-paid phones.

As the world shifts to computing on the cloud , or what my non tech friends call, lots of servers connected to the internet, APIs become increasingly the lingua franca or working language to communicate to and fro from these clouds. Storage in the cloud has been of the earliest use cases and one which has increasingly made sense to create secure backups at a much cheaper rate.